Colegio Colombo Británico

CCB offers the complete International Baccalaureate continuum: the Primary Years Programme from Early Childhood to Grade 5 (combined with Reggio Emilia ideas in the early years), the Middle Years Programme in secondary and, in Grades 11 and 12, a choice between the IB Diploma Programme and the IB Career-related Programme. In the career-related route students attend university-level courses at partner universities Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and ICESI in fields such as business, medicine, industrial engineering and psychology. The IB programmes are delivered together with the Colombian curriculum, so graduates also obtain the national bachillerato.

CCB describes itself as trilingual. In Early Childhood children are introduced to English from the first day while their home language is valued, and from Grade 2 most of the curriculum is taught in English, so students learn content through the language. Spanish remains a core language of instruction, linked to the Colombian national curriculum, and French is taught as a third language from Grade 4, with options to continue it in secondary and the IB.

CCB is organised in three sections. Early Childhood runs from Tiny Cubs (18 months) through Toddlers, Nursery, Pre-K and Kinder to Grade 1, with two teachers per class. Primary covers Grades 2 to 5 and ends with the IB PYP Exhibition. Secondary (Bachillerato) covers Grades 6 to 12, with the IB Middle Years Programme followed by the Diploma or Career-related Programme in Grades 11 and 12. The school year starts in August.

The school's mission is to prepare minds and hearts for the challenges of the future, and its vision is a community whose members have a positive impact wherever they work and live. Its ethos combines British tradition and a Catholic orientation that respects other faiths with an international, innovative education. Core values are tolerance, responsibility, solidarity, honesty, justice and respect, and the motto translates as uniting peoples and cultures through education.

CCB offers more than 15 sports, from water stimulation classes for babies to rugby, tennis and golf for older students, and runs a flexible academic plan for high-performance athletes from Grade 4. Each year it hosts the WAO Games, which bring together around 500 athletes from more than 15 IB schools in Colombia. The arts programme covers music, with primary choir and the CCB Symphonic Band, visual arts, theatre and dance, with an Early Childhood summer show, a primary play and the CCB Musical. Students can also join free clubs such as robotics, the CCBMUN model United Nations, CAS service projects and Round Square service trips abroad.

The school occupies a green campus of about 116,000 m² in Pance, with over a hundred tree species and solar panels that cover a large share of its energy use. Facilities include a swimming pool, the Édgar Jurado football pitch, a hockey pitch, multi-purpose and basketball courts, a main gymnasium and a separate early-years gym, the AEBL auditorium and a secondary drama room, a music house with rehearsal rooms, a dance room, a design technology building, an inquiry space called the Exploratorium, libraries for each section, a cafeteria, early-childhood playgrounds, vegetable gardens and a licensed medical department.

CCB runs its own fleet of 21 air-conditioned buses with trained drivers and monitors, and parents can follow routes live by GPS in the school app. A catering service provides meals for primary and secondary students. The medical department is staffed by a permanent school doctor and two nurses. Each section has psychologists and a neuropsychologist, Early Childhood also has a speech therapist and occupational therapist, and the Learning Support Programme (LSP) offers in-class and small-group help. University counsellors guide students through applications in Colombia and abroad.